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Porn star Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is at the heart of the years-long investigation into former President Donald Trump’s finances — a probe that led to the unprecedented indictment of Trump in 2023.
Porn star and director Stormy Daniels said she met Former President Donald Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006, and the two allegedly began an affair. He was married to Melania Trump at the time, who had just given birth to their son Barron.
She alleged the pair had sex once in his hotel room at Lake Tahoe, a resort area between California and Nevada.
Just weeks before the 2016 presidential election, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid $130,000 so Daniels would keep silent about the alleged affair, which Trump has denied.
In January 2018, news of the hush money broke, and Daniels was thrust into the national spotlight.
Nearly six years after the Manhattan district attorney’s office was reported to be eyeing criminal charges related to the hush-money payment, a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump last year at the conclusion of an investigation into the former president’s finances.
Porn star Stormy Daniels said Cohen paid her $130,000 in “hush-money” to keep her quiet about the affair, just days before the 2016 election – an election won by Trump.
She says she took it because she was concerned for the safety of her family. Daniels said she was legally and physically threatened to stay silent.
the $130,000 one-night stand has been named as the as world’s most expensive one-night stand.
Trump beat Eliot Spitzer, then governor of New York state, who was caught out on a taped phone line making arrangements for a prostitute to meet him in a Washington hotel.
in 2008, Eliot Spitzer paid $4,300 to an upmarket call-girl service called the Emperors Club to arrange for “Kristen” (a “petite brunette”) to travel by train from New York to Washington.
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